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■ :- V\^1 ;™.Jgy■Kafl&tup•;t <"■p.r i*!3fjIpljur Shifting*^siJ®Vol. 47-No. 8.SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEX^S, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1909.$1.00 a Year*2$jWet'-*■*»,>ili?B?:.e; ■)PferpjIIr J?Ten Days of Scissors=Giving!■ I f • •r.. ‘ ' - ‘ i,For the next ten days, begin-ning tomorrow, we will giveeveryone who pays $1.00 onsubscription to the GazetteA Pair of Fine Shears FREE!life* ■;... V. . IDistrict Court.The jury in the Frank Askew (col-ored; case (which was on trial whenwe went to press last week) failed toagree after being out more than twodays. Seven stood for cqutital andfive for conviction. This is the fonrthTen Day Scissor Offer.We now have a big lot of the cele-brated tension spring (self-sharpen-ing) Alvord shears, or scissors, boughtto use in special clubbing propositionsas premiums. We have been givingaway a pair of these nice shears withtrial of this case, and the second jury ; each yearly subscriptioh tq the Ga-that has failed to come to any agree- zette and Dallas Semi-Weekly Newsment; two juries having adjudgedhim guilty, one of manslaughter andone of murder. The case is to beat the regular clubbing rate of $1 75for the two papers. However, as wehave a big supply of. these shears ontried again this term of court and is j hand, and are anxious to make this aset for next Wednesday. big subscription month, we have de-Enos Majors, assault to murder, j cided to offer, for 10 days, (beginningplea of guilty to aggravated assault' Saturday, the 20th and closing MonCotton Belt Officials Here.I tFmi-V.-jfep'vmWMfi' .•« i§§ ' ■.■pae? mjpi S *•sSifeF* •r-' >-mJohn F. Lehane, of Tyler, Texas,general freight and passenger agentof the Cotton Belt, and Guy L. Stew-art, of St. Louis, Industrial and. agri-cultural agent of the system, w ere inSulphur Springs last Monday, theguests of the Sulphur Springs Com-mercial Club. Secretary J. H' Nich-olson turned out the entire board ofLive Wire directors at 3 o’clock,when an informal reception was heldat the club rooms, at which time Mr.Stewart was introduced to a numberof the business men including MayorR. B. Keasler, William F. Skillman,O. M. Pate, W. A. Smith, W. H. Dick-erson and Messrs. Tate and Fanning,of the Daily News and Gazette, re-epectively.Following the informal receptionthe live Wire directors were addressedby Mr. Stewart, who promised toheartily co-operate with the SulphurSprings Commercial Club, iu makingSulphur Springs and Hopkin* countythe mecca of prospective neseekr-ers, and a commercial and iudustrialcenter. Mr. Stewart urged the Im-portance of accurate information inregard to both the city and county iugp$Nenting oar reasons and the fur-ther importance of the real estatemen^giving accurate; descriptions andcorrect prices on land, etc.f) It was suggested by both Mr.Stewart ami Mr. Lehane that the LiveWires connect with a live wire at- Fine Bluff, Ark., and have SulphurSprings literature put on the hi*monthly homeseekers trains over theCotton Belt at that point, the trainsremaining there 25 minutes, and ar-riving there at 2 p. m. It was furthersuggested that the secretary inter-cept all such trains at Texarkana, andget the homeseekers to use their stop-over privilege at Sulphur Springs.“Jack” Lehane who needed no in-troductioh to either Sulphur Springsor its citizens, and Mr. Stewart, wereboth most favorably impressed withthe work being prosecuted by the“Livest of the Live Wires.”Pay for the Gazette one year andget a pair of those self-sharpeningshears free.After Carnegie Library.A mass meeting will be held at thecourt house next Tuesday evening,Febrnary 23d, at 8 o’clock sharp, un-der the anspices of the SulphurSprings Commercial Club, for thepurpose of discussing thevCarnegielibrary proposition, also the propo-sition of organizing a stock companyto erect an uptodate opera house.The site for the Carnegie library isoffered by Theo. Weigers, and thesite for the opera house by O. M.Pate. ' <The Live Wires and the ladies backof the several civic dabs of SulphurSprings propose to raise $1000 an-nually, so that the city council canpledge 10 per cent of Mr. Carnegie’sgift of $10,000, or $1,000 a year formaintaining the library for ten yearsThe money will be collected by Sec-retary J. H. Nicholson, and depositedin both the City National Bank andthe First National Bank, subject todraft by the mayor and city treasurer.The ladies who are successfully en-gineering the several civic dabs ofSulphur Springs are most cordiallyand urgently requested to attend themass meeting, and trice an active partin the proceedings. Secretary Nichol-son, who is from Pittsburg, Pa., andwho is conversant with the philan-thropic work of Mr. Carnegie in thematter of establishing libraries, has afeasible proposition to advance forthe maintainance of the library, sothat the city council can guaranteethe $1,000 a year for ten years, theconditions under which Mr. Carnegiewill make his gift to the city of Sul-phur Springs of $10,000.All who are interested in the Car-negie library proposition, whetherthey pre interested in an uptodateopera house or not, should manifesttheir interest in the library by turn-ing out en masse Tuesday evening tothe mass meeting.and fined $50 and costs.J. J. Williams, disposing of mort-gaged property; dismissed.Jake Wortham, (colored) rape, pleaof guilty; two years in the peniten-tiary. ' |Aurelius Collors, (colored) rape,plea of guilty; two years in the peni-tentiary.Willie B. ;Lewis, (colored) rape;transferred to the juvenile court.Ernest Owens, assault to murder;continued. Hooker Finley and LeeJames, witnesses in this case, wftrefined $25 for failure to obey processof Court. Case set for Feb,^2nd.Major Johnson, rape, (two cases)dismissed on account of insufficientevidence.Oleander Turman, incest; dismiss-ed.Firm Williams, forgery and passingforged instrument; plea of gnilty today, March 1st,) a pair of these shearsfhee with every yearly subscriptionto the Gazette.This offer will not interfere with theGazette and Dallas News offer; youcan still get the shears with the two,but fo$ the next ten days you can getthem by paying one year ($1.00) onthe Gazette.Parties wanting shears sent by mail,Will please add 5c extra, or send that*amount in stamps to cbver postage,as the cost of the shears is so heavywe cannot afford the additional ex-pense of postage for mailing.If you w$ut a pair of these fineshears free, don’t wait; come nowwhlhr#e have them.Yours very truly,R. W. Fanning. Publisher.swindling under v.lne o ( $60,-.nd j-Salphor Springs, Texas, Feb. 17-punlebment assessed at f-n. of $76 g™* operations have .1-gnH^mnnhh.inkH been inaugurated here, thehoiHiracts having been let for a five-room cCotton Seed.Five hundred bushels of pure Me-bane cotton seed for sale, price reas-onably. Apply to J. D.' Crutchfield,Como,‘Texas. 'Jm-I§‘it-BfvLOOK IN OUR WINDOWSIf you want to see the swellest line ofSPRING PANTSEver shown in Sulphur Springs. We havethem in ail the latest patterns, made up fullor half peg top. Our prices are 50c to $1.50a pair less than you can buy them elsewhere.§r§Men’s Pants, all Kinds, from 75cto $7.50 the Pair.THE PRICE IS THE THING ITHE BIG 4 STORE,East Side Sqaare, Sulphir Springs, Texas. .fU,,LOOK FOR THE BIG 4 SIGN !and two months in jailRobert Kirby, burglary; £>lea ofgnilty; two years in the penitentiary*Robert Kirby, perjury; plea ofgnilty; two years in the penitentiary.Willie Legate, burglary; tried byjury and verdict of not guilty.Hatch Odom, seduction; set forFeb. 22nd. ^Jack’ Caddell, passing forged in-strument; plea of guilty to swindlingander value of $5(h Fined $100 andcost and given 60 days in jail.Walter Pannell, murder, continuedon account of absence of Joe and AdaBates and Jim Davis, witnesses, andeach of said witnesses were fined $25for failure to obey process of Court.Dave JohnSon, assault to murder,reduced to aggravated assanlt; pleaof gnilty; fined $25.Improvements.tcottage on Locust street and atwo-story residence on College street,the latter to be erected at a cost of$3,000. The contracts have beenwarded to Hodge & Ellis, local build-rs and contractors, and the materialfor the Locust street cottage is alreadyon the ground.—Dallas News.Arbor Day Proclamation.Parsuant to the request of Chairman*lTaltar I. Harper, of the committeeeraf^pnhlic parka and shade trees ofthe* Sulphur Springs CommercialClub, Mayor R. B. Keasler last Satur-day issued the following Arbor Dayproclamation:“The State of Texas, City of Sul-phur Springs—Know ye that I, R. B.Keasler, Mayor of the city of SulphnrTHE CITY NATIONAL BANKUNITED STATES DEPOSITORYRead Our StatementAT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS FEB. 5, 1909#RESOURCES:Loans and Discounts, . . .$306,544.77U. S. Bonds and Securities,155,569.85Banking House, Furniture,Fixtures and Real Estate,Z6,474.00Cash and Exchange, . . .188,789.69 .Total, . '. . . .$677,378.31LIABILITIES:Capital Stock.....$100,000.00 -t.Surplus and Undivided Profits 70,061.86Circulation, ......Deposits, . . . . . .100,000.0040^,316.45Total, t k . .. .$677,378.31.as»% ■ *st.Im. Larger, stronger, better ihan ever,We solicit your business.There’s no account too large for us to handle.None too small for us to appreciate.W. F. SKILLMAN, . . .a—Springs, do hereby designate Thurs-day, the 25tb day of February, 1909,Arbor Day for the city of SulphurSprings, for the year 1909, and I sug-gest that our people, so far as may beconsistent with their duties, make thesame a day for planting trees of va-rious kinds, shrubbery^ etc , and aday which may be looked baok toin the future as * the beginning_of the beautifying of a Gzer Sulphur Springs, and I'upon all our citizens to enter fullyto the spirit of the occasion, andit one of pleasure and j“Given Under mythis the 13th day of“R. B. Keaslbr,“Mayor of the City of SulphurSprings.” ; , 12;A motion for a new trial in the W.B. Pratt dkse was overruled ind no-tice of appeal was given.Judge Porter dismissed the juryWednesday noon and adjourned courtnatil Monday morning.Sulphur Springs Hustling.Sulphur Springs, Tex., Feb. 17.—The Sulphur Springs Commercirl Clubhas merited the title of “livest of livewires” during the last three days,having mailed out 446 pieces of lit-erature to points covering ev ery statein the Union, Nova Scotia, the Baha-ma Islands and Mexico. The listswere furnished by Guy L. Stewart,industrial and agricultural agent ofthe Cotton Belt, who submitted 371names; Henry Tapp, who furnishedthe names of twenty-nine interestedin Texas lands, the result of his in**serting a farm for sale advertisementin The Semi-Weekly Farm News,while A. L. Mark, a Hopkins Countyfarmer, furnished the names of forty-six in Pleasonton, Iowa; Cobb, Hu-mansville and Saline, Mo., who hadsignified an interest in Texas landf.Postmaster W. P. Harris says if thelive wires keep up this large volumeof outgoing mail, that Snlphnr Springswill shortly be entitled to free deliv-ery, the office now being a second-class one.—Dallas News.I CAROTHERS BROTHERS 1Can Fit' the Hardly to Fit hi •/We have suits made up. in stouts, slims and e^trasizes. Our high-grade tailor-made Spring ClothingIs now ready for your inspection, and we take greatpleasure in showing you through the entire line.NNhi*:'v >*•Wsm.H Ift*;s m.alpy.-yy-yyHimwz!:-mmggHigh Interest in West.Wednesday’s daily papers statedthat the Commissioners Court of How-ard county had selected one of thebanks in Big Springs as county deposi-tory, the bank agreeing to pay 7 percent interest on daily balances. This isan unusual rate of interest for a bankto pay on daily balances and is an evi-de nee that at least that section of thewest is short on money. Where pros-'perity reigns there is no occasion fora bank to pay such a high rate of in-terest. When banks are forced to payhigh interest, the man who borrowsfrom them, has to “pay the toll.” So,those who go west—to Howard coun-ty-may figure on paying stiff interestwhen they borrow money.Dr. Taylor can extractyour teeth without pain,and positively no bad ef-fects.MXmMil; *■m4&Si:wCopyright 1908 . _j SCHLOSS BROS. * CO.'\FI»s Cloths* MaksrsUBaltlKtre.eeO M*» t*r$I CAROTHERS BROTHERSSOUTH SIDE SQUARE, SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEX.